Skip to content

FilmsNoir.Net – all about film noir

the art of #filmnoir @filmsnoir.net | Copyright © Anthony D'Ambra 2007-2025

  • Top 25 Noirs
  • Essential Noirs
  • Articles & Reviews
    • What is Film Noir?
    • Film Noir Cheat Sheet
      • Film Noir: Explore the Dark Side of Cinema with Film Noir
    • Articles
    • Movie Reviews
    • Snap Reviews
  • More Noir
    • Classic Stills
    • Noir Books
    • Noir Cities
    • Noir Directors
    • Noir Links
    • Noir Poetry & Fiction
    • Noir Writers
    • Noir Poets
    • Noir Trailers
  • Contact
  • About

Wall Street: “What do you mean ‘gangsters’? It’s business.” *

* Force of Evil (1947)

Force Of Evil (1947)

Share this:

  • Tweet
  • More
  • Click to email a link to a friend (Opens in new window) Email
  • Click to share on Reddit (Opens in new window) Reddit
  • Pocket
  • Click to share on Telegram (Opens in new window) Telegram
  • Click to share on WhatsApp (Opens in new window) WhatsApp
  • Click to share on Bluesky (Opens in new window) Bluesky
Like Loading...

Related

Unknown's avatarAuthor Tony D'AmbraPosted on September 16, 2008Categories Articles

Leave a comment Cancel reply

Post navigation

Previous Previous post: The Sexual Politics of Mildred Pierce
Next Next post: Touch Of Evil Restoration

Get Your Own WordPress Site

A crash course in film noir

Film Noir: Explore the dark side
The Origins of Film Noir: A cash course in film noir its origins and influences

This primer on classic film noir crystallizes a set of visual, narrative, and thematic elements already present in European movements and in American hard‑boiled fiction, then refracts them through postwar U.S. anxieties about crime, gender, and social change. The modules effectively give you a mini‑syllabus: starting from noir, out to its literary and cinematic antecedents, then forward to its legacy in neo‑noir and contemporary art cinema.

Explore The Origins of Film Noir Visually
Cut to the Chase

Film Noir: On the Wrong Side of the Street
A hard-boiled take

Top Posts

  • Robert Wise's Odds Against Tomorrow (1959): A Work of Art
  • The Locket (1946): Freudian Melodrama
  • Stranger on The Third Floor (1940): The Noir Dream-Scape
  • In the Valley of Elah (2007): Responsibility and Chaos
  • Ruthless (1948): "Not a man, a way of life"
  • The Big Gamble (1931): The coolest car chase you have never seen!
  • Mildred Pierce (1945): "alligators have the right idea... they eat their young"
  • "All you need to make a movie is a girl and a gun"
  • Cinematic Cities: New York Noir
  • Cinematic Cities: Chicago City Noir
  • About
  • Articles
  • Books
  • Classic Stills
  • Contact
  • Essential Films Noir
  • Film Noir
  • Film Noir Cheat Sheet
  • Foyer
  • Links
  • Movie Reviews
  • Noir Directors
  • Noir Writers
  • Privacy Statement
  • Snap Reviews
  • Top 25 Films Noir
  • Top 25 Films Noir
  • What is Film Noir?
  • Posts
  • Blog Feed
  • Top 25 Noirs
  • Essential Noirs
  • Articles & Reviews
    • What is Film Noir?
    • Film Noir Cheat Sheet
      • Film Noir: Explore the Dark Side of Cinema with Film Noir
    • Articles
    • Movie Reviews
    • Snap Reviews
  • More Noir
    • Classic Stills
    • Noir Books
    • Noir Cities
    • Noir Directors
    • Noir Links
    • Noir Poetry & Fiction
    • Noir Writers
    • Noir Poets
    • Noir Trailers
  • Contact
  • About
FilmsNoir.Net – all about film noir

  • Foyer
  • Essential Films Noir
  • Robert Wise's Odds Against Tomorrow (1959): A Work of Art
  • The Locket (1946): Freudian Melodrama
  • Stranger on The Third Floor (1940): The Noir Dream-Scape
  • Classic Stills
  • In the Valley of Elah (2007): Responsibility and Chaos
  • Ruthless (1948): "Not a man, a way of life"
  • The Big Gamble (1931): The coolest car chase you have never seen!
  • What is Film Noir?
  • Comment
  • Reblog
  • Subscribe Subscribed
    • FilmsNoir.Net - all about film noir
    • Already have a WordPress.com account? Log in now.
    • FilmsNoir.Net - all about film noir
    • Subscribe Subscribed
    • Sign up
    • Log in
    • Copy shortlink
    • Report this content
    • View post in Reader
    • Manage subscriptions
    • Collapse this bar
%d